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anybody have info on DENIS-P J104814.7-395606.1 ? It's a new brown dwarf supposed to be 'near' our solar system. I'm very curious about its movement and location, but don't understand the scientific jargon. infiverse8@yahoo.com

QUOTE=Michaelangelica;99726]This is a very good article on terra preta soils " saving soil as well as the planet" an amazing article with a lot of implications for climate control, global warming as well as agriculture Saving The Planet While Saving The Farm: How soil carbonization could save the planet while it makes farming profitable again That was indeed an excellent article. I think the major flaw in his theory is getting millions of farmers to 'jump on the charcoal bandwagon.' But for gardens everywhere it is a good idea. I am wondering if ashes from normal campfires would be a good soil additive...

Nothing to say but congrats & if anyone deserves it you do .. keep it just for fun

That is a great website. I played with it for a few minutes and got a beautiful realtime sat image of Great Lakes and Michigan. Would like to say more but I gotta go back and play ... I mean research that site. Thanks for the tip, C1ay!

My daughter moved to Washington State in September and I moved back to Michigan a month ago; we've been comparing weather information regularly. this morning she said there was snow there and we were enjoying temperatures in the 50s. My brother says Michigan winters are dryer and warmer than they were back in the 70s when I lived there. I'm not complaining, but I was surprised...

Well I might as well give my opinion on the alien 'problem.' When I first read the David Icke material about shape-shifting reptiles having lived on the Earth for longer than humans it seemed funny. After lots of googling I'm not laughing. If what he says and other sites imply is even close to true, Somebody is sure going to a lot of trouble to keep it quiet. And whatever is going on, it seems to me to be coming to a 'cusp' within the next several years. Stay tuned ...

First, thanks for the replies. You could be right. I could be ... less right. Anything is possible. Nothing is certain, especially when it pertains to the future. I will try to discuss global warming in probabilities. Global warming is probably increased by CO2 emissions. Global warming could possibly be a result of other factors as well. Changes in the core of the Earth, Solar changes, other factors we aren't aware of. Reducing CO2 emissions is almost definitely a good idea. The scientific method has many good qualities which result in many good results. The same could be said for Democracy. The beauty of a forum of this nature is it gives people like me with little scientific training the chance to suggest ideas to others that might improve their 'models of reality.' I did not intend to slam scientists, just get them to consider other possibilities. I read lots of websites with 'weird' ideas about what will happen in the next 5 to 10 years. While their scenarios are unlikely they are nowhere near impossible. I suggest we all be a little less certain about what will happen in the near future.... and that we keep communicating. Thats one of our most valuable tools! Stay tuned ...

I chose the one which has aliens abducting humans. I have no direct evidence for this but having read many opinions on various websites. I suspect that the 'true' facts are that higher-dimensional beings are now, and have been on this planet for as long as humans have. If you've never heard of this theory google 'keylontic dictionary.' In the book by Michael Harner entitled 'The Way of the Shaman' he mentions 'crocodilian demons' he sees in a vision. these 'lizzies' are repeatedly seen along with 'the little grays' in numerous sightings. Carlos Castaneda in his final book, 'The Active Side of Infinity,' devotes a chapter to 'mudshadows,' invisible beings guiding our lives in subtle ways. Most people reading this will think I am stupid or crazy and thats exactly the way these beings like it. As for me, I am writing to those few who will investigate, and hopefully upgrade their paradigms. - cheers!

Thanks, Harry. I had no ideas my 'model' of the universe was so outdated. If I wait for the LAST word before making any more comments they will have to be engraved upon my tombstone, however, so I will continue to speak up in the hope my remarks are at least amusing if not exactly enlightening. Just passing through ...

"This is true of course. Zealotry is not limited to religion. However, Science (big S) does not have a central throne of authority or something like an Inquisition to "enforce" the orthodox position." Science has research budgets, science has public ridicule, tenure, etc. Scientists have tunnel vision just like other humans. Scientists have University degrees which grant some of them Supreme Arrogance. I suspect most scientists in private conversations with good friends will admit to beliefs they would nevber Publish. Another thing about this rising ocean 'threat.' It seems to me that Earth might want the levels to rise, but $$$ interests want to retain the status quo. Which just isn't going to happen. And let me end with a question. Is it possible that other factors, especially solar activity, could be adding to climate change? ta-ta fer now...

I am glad to see the demise of the big bang theory. I wondered how we could be so sure of any theory about the birth of the universe with such a relatively small amount of data. An expanding universe, it seems to me, could be just going through a temporary cycle, followed by a contracting cycle, etc etc etc like our lungs do when we breathe. Maybe the universe has been around ... forever?

For a fresh (if fantastic) slant on the 'alien' problem google 'keylontic science' and for those too lazy to do so (99% of us) let me summarize some of their teachings: The universe is eternal, the ancestors of humans are over 950 billion years old, time travel does exist, the Ark of the Covenant exists and is the key to a stargate located at the center of the Earth. And etc etc etc. By the way, I like to think in terms of more and less useful models of reality rather than right or wrong. And my favorite bumper sticker (so far) is the 'why be normal' one, placed upside down of course. Have a good one ...

With a risk of being labeled a heretic I am going to express my beliefs concerning God, dice, and the universe rather than try to guess Einstein's beliefs. He was after all just a man, same as Jesus. We all have free will. We are all living members of a Universe, one of an infinite number of 'parallel' universes. God doesn't play dice with 'the' universe, he doen't interfere at all. Probability determines which universe each of our probable selves inhabits from moment to moment. Nothing is certain, anything is possible, some things are more likely than others, and we all must learn to live with the implied uncertainty in the 'infiverse.' And before you all begin labeling me and slinging mud, let me quote the GREAT prophet Popeye: "I am what I am, and thats all I am." Good night.

Since time has been erased from your awareness you are like the picture of atoms bouncing off eachother. You can no longer measure things, or refer to time. You are a tempature, a motion, just like the rest of the universe, a simple experience of now, that is timeless. But while you are now more or less 'dead' the universe continues, it has the ability to follow a method of operation that reflects what memory is. It knows where to go next, and each thing in it. It follows a pathway and laws and all this requires that same type of thing, some kind of structure, some kind of memory, and what that thing is, is up to you to describe. So because our brains can remember, time suddenly becomes a product and can be measured. But when memory is lost what results is the universe and reality in its raw pure structure. My take on this time thing stems from a theory of parallel universes I read awhile ago which suggested that there were an infinite number of STATIC universes. There was no motion in any of them, much like individual frames of a movie film. Therefore what we experience as time is and movement within the Universe is actually movement between/among parallel universes. Or, as Seth sais in "The Unknown Reality": The individual, like the species, exists in multidimensional terms; and hovers around focuses of probabilities; weaving in and out of alternate realities constantly.” Whatever... 0.o

I don't believe the issue is really the cartoons. The muslim world is unhappy with the US attitude towards the Muslim world since 9/11 in general. Bush screams about weapons of mass destruction but the US has them. Bush invades Iraq to 'free the people' but would Americans (or anyone else) like to be invaded to be freed? If Someone in the Muslim world was publishing garbage about Jesus, wouldn't a few feathers gert ruffled? The violent backlash by Muslims is wrong, but I understand their frustration.